Area Sports

Presbyterian College’s search for a new softball coach is over after athletic director Danny Sterling announced Morehead State Head Coach David Williams was named to the same post. Williams replaces Britne Stubbs, who was let go after a 2018 season that saw the team win just four games. She spent the previous four years at…

This coming Tuesday, Laurens County Speedway will come alive with its biggest race of the year – and the most meaningful. The Speedway will play host to the Shrine Race, an event that raises money for the Greenville Shriner’s Hospital for Children. A year ago the event raised $25,000 for the hospital, and this year…

Clinton High Athletic Director Nickie Templeton announced a number of coaching shifts last week, as well as the return of a former athletic director to the department. David Barnes was announced as the new assistant athletic director, taking over for Ryan Cavanaugh. The latter left that post to take over the head coaching role with…

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Richland County, the Laurens 56 School District joined Spartanburg District 1, 2, and 4, along with Greenwood District 50 in action against the South Carolina High School League and Union County Schools over the decision to allow Union County High School to move down to Class 3A after UC…

Jon Jansen, who has helped lead the Hickory Tavern Middle School Girls’ Basketball team to the last three Little River Conference Tournament titles and a 40-4 record over those three years, will be leaving to take on the head coaching job next year with the Woodruff varsity girls. Jansen announced the decision in a Twitter…

Clinton’s second straight trip to the playoffs, and second straight year with a home playoff game, came to a disappointing end Tuesday night. West-Oak scored off a rebound in the 76th minute of Tuesday’s first-round Class 3A playoff opener, and the Red Devils’ season ended with a 1-0 loss at Wilder Stadium. The loss dropped…

The head coaching tenure of Britne Stubbs with the Presbyterian College softball program came to an end Monday, two days after the team finished a 4-42 season with a victory over Radford. Stubbs spent five years with the Blue Hose, four as the team’s head coach. Her best year was her first (2015), when the…

The Laurens Raiders’ 2018 postseason run came to a sudden end Saturday afternoon when Hanna scored four runs in the second inning and two more in the fifth, holding off a late rally to notch a 6-4 decision that eliminated the Raiders from the Class 5A, District II playoffs. Laurens, which had lost 4-1 the…